MADDY SAVAGE
ABOUT
Working as a BBC staff journalist in London for a decade, Maddy reported for UK and global TV news programmes and anchored BBC World Service radio shows reaching 50 million people a week. Based in Stockholm since 2014, she is now a freelance foreign correspondent for media including BBC, NPR, Monocle and The Huffington Post, focussing on business, current affairs and lifestyle trends in the Nordics. Voted one of the 100 most impactful and influential figures in the Nordic startup scene, Maddy has also produced and presented three seasons of The Stockholmer Podcast, interviewing the Swedish capital’s most inspiring creatives and entrepreneurs. She regularly works as a moderator at some of the region’s most prominent tech and media events.
MADDY SAVAGE
FEATURED WORK
When Swedes tried six hour days
A few Swedish companies have been giving workers the chance to work fewer hours on full pay. But has it really had an impact?
BBC / video
The man who ice skates to work
Watch David Allanson’s unusual commute – ice skating to work across a lake in Falun, Sweden.
BBC / video
Why Sweden is almost cashless
Sweden is the most cashless society on the planet. So how did the Nordic nation get so far ahead of the rest of us?
BBC / article
Is Trump right about Sweden?
Donald Trump claims Sweden’s immigration policy has been a failure, but many locals disagree.
BBC / video
The city with a 20 year wait for a rental
Think housing is bad where you live? Stockholm’s queue for rent-controlled housing is being considered by the Guinness Book of World Records.
BBC / article
Stockholm’s fresh-thinking chefs
Meet Stockholm’s fresh-thinking chefs, busy making hay (or, rather, delicious food) while the sun shines.
MONOCLE / article
The first therapy book with a refugee hero
Syrian-born Imad Elabdala was so worried about the impact of war on children around the world that he quit his engineering job in Stockholm to try and find a solution.
THE STOCKHOLMER / podcast
The expats who don’t want to come home
What happens if you’re living abroad when your home country votes for its biggest shake-up in decades? After Brexit, many UK expats are reconsidering their plans to return.
